Stevie Wonder, Common - Black America Again lyrics

Here we go, here, here we go again
Trayvon'll never get to be an older man
Black children
They childhood stole from them
Robbed of our names and our language
Stole again
Who stole the soul from black folk?
Same man that stole the land
From Chief Black Smoke
And made the whip crackle on our back slow
And made us go through the back door
And raffle black bodies on the slave blocks
Now we slave to the blocks
On 'em we spray shots
Leaving our own to lay in a box
Black mothers' stomachs stay in a knot
We kill each other, it's part of the plot
I wish the hating will stop
(war) and the battle with us
I know that Black Lives Matter
And they matter to us


These are the things we gotta discuss
The new plantation, mass incarceration
Instead of educate
They'd rather convict the kids
As dirty as the water in Flint, the system is
Is it a felony or a misdemeanor?
Maria Sharapova making more than Serena
It took Viola Davis to say this
The roles of the help and the gangstas
Is really all they gave us
We need Avas, Ta-Nehisis, and Cory Bookers
The salt of the Earth to get us off of sugar
And greasy foods I don't believe the news
Or radio, stereotypes we refuse
Brainwashed in the cycle to spin
We write our own story, black America again

You know, one way of solving a lot of
Problems that we've got is
Lettin' a person feel that they're
Important and a man can't
Get himself together until he
Knows who he is, and be proud
Of what and who he is and where he come from
And where he come from

Hot damn, black America again
Think of Sandra Bland as I'm
Staring in the wind the color of my skin
They comparing it to sin the darker it gets
The less fairer it has been
The hate the hate made, I inherited from them
But I ain't gon' point the finger
We got anointed singers, like
Nina, Marvin, Billie, stevie
Need to hear them songs
Sometimes to believe me
Who freed me: Lincoln or Cadillac?
Drinkin' or battle raps? Or is it
Godspeed that we travel at?
Endangered in our own habitat
The guns and dope, man
Y'all can have it back
As a matter of fact, we them lab rats
You build the projects for
Now you want your hood back
I guess if you could rap
You would express it too
That PTSD, we need professionals
You know what pressure do
It make the pipes bust
From schools to prison, y'all
They tryna pipe us
Tell your political parties invite us
Instead of making voting laws to spite us
You know
You know we from a family of fighters
Fought in your wars and our wars
You put a nigga in Star Wars
Maybe you need two
And then, maybe then we'll believe you
See black people in the future
We wasn't shipped here to rob and shoot ya
We hold these truths to be self-evident
All men and women are created equal
Including black Americans

You know, you know, you know
One way of solving a lot
Of problems that we've got
Is to let a person feel like somebody and a
Man can't get himself together until
He knows who he is, and be
Proud of what and who he is
And where he come from
And where he come from

We are rewriting the black American story
We are rewriting the black American story
We are rewriting the black American story
We are rewriting the black American story
We are rewriting the black American story
We are rewriting the black American story
We are rewriting the black American story
We are rewriting the black American story
We are rewriting the black American story
We are rewriting the black American story
We are rewriting the black American story
We are rewriting the black American story